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The Man Who Would Be King

2013-02-19 Fiction
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Release : 2013-02-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Would Be King by : Rudyard Kipling

Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling. This book was released on 2013-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features five of the author's best early stories: title selection plus "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie," "Without Benefit of Clergy" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes."

The Man Who Would Be King

2024-02-26 Fiction
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Release : 2024-02-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Would Be King by : Rudyard Kipling

Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling. This book was released on 2024-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Men Who Would Be King

2021-11-08 Apotheosis
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Release : 2021-11-08
Genre : Apotheosis
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Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Men Who Would Be King by : Christopher Lord

Download or read book The Men Who Would Be King written by Christopher Lord. This book was released on 2021-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men Who Would Be King tells the stories of men from the West who go to Vanuatu claiming/believing they are the fulfilment of a prophecy on the islands that says a divine man will come from overseas. These tales are as wily as any fiction; a claimant to a tropical throne living in exile in Nice, an American filmmaker wandering between villages handing out necklaces of his own face. This book asks why the old explorers dream about deified white men has endured in the Western imagination, through films and literature, and examines the long shadow it casts into our own time.

The Man Who Would Be King

2008-10-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-10-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Would Be King by : Ben Macintyre

Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Ben Macintyre. This book was released on 2008-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before, yet the life and writings of this extraordinary man echo down the centuries, as America finds itself embroiled once more in the land he first explored and described 180 years ago. Soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist, traveler, and writer, Josiah Harlan wanted to be a king, with all the imperialist hubris of his times. In an extraordinary twenty-year journey around Central Asia, he was variously employed as surgeon to the Maharaja of Punjab, revolutionary agent for the exiled Afghan king, and then commander in chief of the Afghan armies. In 1838, he set off in the footsteps of Alexander the Great across the Hindu Kush and forged his own kingdom, only to be ejected from Afghanistan a few months later by the invading British. Using a trove of newly discovered documents and Harlan's own unpublished journals, Ben Macintyre's The Man Who Would Be King tells the astonishing true story of the man who would be the first and last American king.

The Men Who Would Be King

2010-05-04 Performing Arts
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Release : 2010-05-04
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The Men Who Would Be King by : Nicole LaPorte

Download or read book The Men Who Would Be King written by Nicole LaPorte. This book was released on 2010-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times). For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King—an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel they are part of the creative calamities of moviemaking as LaPorte’s fly-on-the-wall detail shows us Hollywood’s bizarre rules of business. We see the clashes between the often-otherworldly Spielberg’s troops and Katzenberg’s warriors, the debacles and disasters, but also the Oscar-winning triumphs, including Saving Private Ryan. We watch as the studio burns through billions of dollars, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers. LaPorte displays Geffen, seducing investors like Microsoft’s Paul Allen, showing his steel against CAA’s Michael Ovitz, and staging fireworks during negotiations with Paramount and Disney. Here is a blockbuster behind-the-scenes Hollywood story—up close, glamorous, and gritty.

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